Section 4 Establishing connection and verifying the
IEC 61850 station communication
4.1 Setting the station communication
To enable IEC 61850 station communication:
• The IEC 61850-8-1 station communication functionality must be on in the local
HMI. Navigate to Main menu/Configuration/Communication/Station
communication/IEC61850-8-1:1 and set the Operation parameter to On.
• To enable GOOSE communication the Operation parameter for the
corresponding GOOSE function blocks (GOOSEBINRCV and
GOOSEINTLKRCV) must be set to On in the application configuration.
• To enable GOOSE communication via the front port the parameter
PortSelGOOSE in Main menu/Configuration/Communication/Station
communication/IEC61850-8-1:1 must be set to Front. To enable GOOSE
communication via rear port the parameter PortSelGOOSE must be set to LAN1.
• To enable MMS communication via the rear port the parameter PortSelMMS in
Main menu/Configuration/Communication/Station communication/
IEC61850-8-1:1 must be set to LAN1.
4.2 Verifying the station communication
Connect your PC to the substation network and ping the connected IED and the
Substation Master PC, to verify that the communication is working (up to the transport
layer).
The best way to verify the communication up to the application layer is to use protocol
analyzer connected to the substation bus, and monitor the communication.
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